Dundas, Ontario, Canada held a town charter between 1848 and 2001. Its nickname is the Valley Town. It is now part of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley Conservation Area. Now operated by the Hamilton Conservation Authority, the area links up directly and indirectly with the Bruce Trail. Other green spaces in...
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Dundas, Ontario, Canada held a town charter between 1848 and 2001. Its nickname is the Valley Town. It is now part of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley Conservation Area. Now operated by the Hamilton Conservation Authority, the area links up directly and indirectly with the Bruce Trail. Other green spaces include the Dundas Driving Park, Veterans Park and Cootes Paradise.
Notable events are the Buskerfest in early June, the Dundas Cactus Festival in August.
The town of Dundas was incorporated in 1847 as part of Wentworth County. It was named by John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, for his friend Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, a Scottish lawyer and politician who never visited North America. Prior to be called "Dundas" the town was called Coote’s Paradise, and renamed after 1814 to Dundas.
In the late 18th and early 19th...
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